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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: — LORD BYRON, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto IV April 28 1818.
Write to Shelley . . . Letter from Mary. — William Godwin, March 4 1818. Finally!
Mary and Shelly go for a walk. What do they discuss? Suicide. Death. Scandal. Marriage. — December 15 1816.
“Mary writes her book” — Percy Shelley writes in the Bath Journal, October 26 1816. First reference to a BOOK!
After the victory of the Pyramids and possession of Cairo, then I willingly resigned myself to every brilliant dream.—Napoleon, Oct 18 1816.
Shelley goes to Diodati to spend the evening with Byron. Mary remains behind reading and writing. — August 1 1816.
Mary Godwin, Percy Shelley, their son William and a Claire Clairmont leave England for Switzerland. — May 3 1816.
. . . With frantic gesture and short breathless cry Folded his frame in her dissolving arms. — PERCY SHELLEY
Good Apple Pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness. — Jane Austen, October 17 1815.
Captain Coussmaker (1782) by Reynolds. The Captain sat 21 times for the painting. The Horse two times.— May 10 1813